A
hugeThank You to Bill & Barbara
(Caddell) Fox for this survey and driving directions

Directions
from Mart:

Go
south on South Co. Line Rd. (aka CR171) to the
“T”

Turn
left onto CR 172, go approximately 0.4 miles

When
the road “Y’s”; take LCR 610 to the right

Stay
on LCR 610 for approximately 1.3 miles

Turn
right onto LCR 611.

Stay
on LCR 611 for approximately 0.6 miles

Turn
left onto CR 175

Stay
on CR 175 for approximately 1.2 miles

As
you are passing the house on the right, the
cemetery is on the corner that you are approaching, on the left, in the
pasture

The
Mettina Cemetery sign near the road on the fence
row is covered by tree leaves & brush during the spring
& summer

If
you had family in the Mettina area you might want
to check the cemetery listings for St.
John’s
Cemetery.St.
John’s Church at Otto
had its beginning in the Mettina community as St. John’s Evangelical
Church in
the year 1886. The Rev. F. Werning, a traveling pastor of the
Evangelical
Synod of North America, was the organizing pastor and served the
congregation
the first four years of its existence.

Worship services for the new congregation were held twice a month in
the
William Hommel home. For a brief time they also met in a
vacant farm
house until the congregation built the Mettina School in
1889. This
building served as a community church and school for the next thirteen
years.

In 1902 the Mettina property was sold and St. John’s was relocated to
its
present site at Otto. The present church building was
dedicated in 1930.

The above info
was taken from
A Centennial History of Riesel, Texas 1881 - 1981
Compiled and written by Mrs. Dorothy Kuehl
(page 36)
Submitted by Barbara (Caddell) Fox